Softball

PORTVILLE — Bill Torrey got the idea from the coaching staffs at Ellicottville and Cattaraugus-Little Valley. He’d seen some of the videos that had po...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Under ordinary circumstances, their final season would have played out in nearly the same fashion the last one ended. On that final da...

Monday began a period without high school sports, as schools around the Southern Tier joined the many around the country shut down in an attempt to st...

Matt Burke had a good experience playing in the now-defunct Cattaraugus County Exceptional Seniors baseball game “decades ago.” In recent years, he’d ...

BUFFALO — Despite all the thrilling places his coaching career has taken him, from the highest levels of college basketball to the NBA, John Beilein s...

There was a special buzz in the air around Bradford 50 years ago on Sept. 3, 1969, as softball royalty made its way to McKean County. Eddie “The King”...

Among the 2019 Big 30 baseball/softball award winners are (from left): Otto-Eldred’s Jame Thomas (Larry Sudbrook Award, baseball Coach of the …

One was loaded from the start. The other, by year’s end, boasted the most all-stars of any area squad. But as talented as the Wellsville softball and ...

Morgan Sibble, admittedly, might not fit the traditional mold of an overpowering pitcher. At 5-foot-4, she isn’t particularly tall. She didn’t throw q...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Ellicottville/Cattaraugus-Little Valley retained its crown in the District 2 10-12-year-old softball championship, but not without a f...

The Brooks family dominated this year’s CCAA I East softball accolades. Senior Justine Brooks swept the league’s Player of the Year and Pitcher of the...

WILLIAMSVILLE — As much as the Olean High softball team enjoyed blanking its last two playoff opponents, the shutouts didn’t prevent the Huskies from ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Portville appeared to be in another tight, tense softball contest, much like the one it had four days ago against the defending stat...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For six innings, the Portville and Chautauqua Lake softball teams locked into a pitchers’ duel, with just four runs and seven hits b...

WILLIAMSVILLE — Justine Brooks faced immense pressure. Nothing new for the Olean High softball team’s new ace pitcher. Since the season began, Brooks ...

HOUGHTON — For the second time in five days, Batavia Notre Dame wrecked an Allegany County softball team’s successful season. The eighth-seeded Fighti...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The victory Olean High pulled off Tuesday afternoon is often required of teams to win sectional titles and advance deeper. The Huski...

PORTVILLE — After surviving a few tense late innings with Cattaraugus-Little Valley, the Portville softball team is back to where its season ended a y...